Relationships Between Coastal Sea Level and Large Scale Ocean Circulation

Guest Editorial: Relationships Between Coastal Sea Level and Large-Scale Ocean Circulation.- Concepts and Terminology for Sea Level: Mean, Variability and Change, Both Local and Global.- Correction to: Concepts and Terminology for Sea Level: Mean, Variability and Change, Both Local and Global.- Coastal Sea Level and Related Fields from Existing Observing Systems.- Satellite Altimetry Measurements of Sea Level in the Coastal Zone.- Forcing Factors Affecting Sea Level Changes at the Coast.- The Ability of Barotropic Models to Simulate Historical Mean Sea Level Changes from Coastal Tide Gauge Data.- Impact of Continental Freshwater Runoff on Coastal Sea Level.- Sea Level and the Role of Coastal Trapped Waves in Mediating the Influence of the Open Ocean on the Coast.- Impacts of Basin-Scale Climate Modes on Coastal Sea Level: a Review.- Trends of Coastal Sea Level Between 1993 and 2015: Imprints of Atmospheric Forcing and Oceanic Chaos.- The Contribution of Wind-Generated Waves to CoastalSea-Level Changes.- Interactions Between Mean Sea Level, Tide, Surge, Waves and Flooding: Mechanisms and Contributions to Sea Level Variations at the Coast.- Climate Model Uncertainty and Trend Detection in Regional Sea Level Projections: A Review.- Uncertainties in Long-Term Twenty-First Century Process-Based Coastal Sea-Level Projections.- Probabilistic Sea Level Projections at the Coast by 2100.

Rui M. Ponte is a Principal Scientist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., where he leads the Atmosphere, Ocean & Climate Section. Aside from working extensively on problems related to the modeling and interpretation of sea level variability and change, his broad and multidisciplinary research interests have led him to study the general circulation of the ocean and atmosphere using the angular momentum approach, the intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere and oceans, the effects of the ocean on the Earth's rotation and gravity field, and the oceanic meridional overturning circulation, among other topics.

Benoît Meyssignac is a research scientist at the "Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale" (LEGOS) and at the "Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales" (CNES) in Toulouse, France. His research aims at understanding the variations of the global Earth energy-water cycle (including sea level and mass transfer variations) at regional and global scales through satellite observations and modelling approaches. His efforts have ranged from the development of global sea level products and global mass redistribution products (with associated uncertainties) tailored for robust comparisons with climate models to the   detection and attribution of anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases and aerosols emissions) and natural forcing (solar variability, volcanic eruptions) in the Earth energy-water cycle variations. His research on high precision geodetic measurements of the Earth energy-water reservoirs leads to new insights on the behaviour of the energy-water cycle and guide the improvement of climate models.


Catia M. Domingues is a senior physical oceanographer in the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate group at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, and an associated affiliated at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Her research, in collaboration